Author Archives: ehurst

Fog in the Mind

Posted on November 7, 2009 by ehurst

Today we got away and drove the Talimena Highway, or more accurately, the Winding Stair Mountain Trail. It follows a ridge top path between Talihina, OK and Mena, AR, in the Kiamichi Mountains. We were just a little late to … Continue reading →

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Trusting Microsoft?

Posted on November 6, 2009 by ehurst

Dana Blankenhorn asks What Would Make You Trust Microsoft? Good question. I’ll apply the same standard here as I do to everything else — God’s sense of justice. First, I suppose we should note, as one poster did, there are … Continue reading →

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XFCE: Less Is More

Posted on November 5, 2009 by ehurst

GTK is a very nice GUI toolkit. GNOME is rickety and parts, if not the whole thing, tend to crash way too much. You may have gotten a stable implementation on your Linux system, as CentOS does, but that’s only … Continue reading →

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Ron Paul Proves It’s Pointless

Posted on November 4, 2009 by ehurst

Hats off to Ron Paul. From within the system he has striven to make things go right. He preaches the Constitution, does everything he can to get folks to abide by it, works to restrain or remove anything in government … Continue reading →

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Ukrainian Death March?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by ehurst

The mainstream press aren’t covering it much, if at all. From the alternative news sources, we hear a plague is sweeping the The Ukraine. The information coming out of there is very, very confused. It’s been related to H1N1, pneumonic … Continue reading →

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Purely on Constitutional Grounds

Posted on November 2, 2009 by ehurst

Never mind your political aspirations, let’s just look at what the US Constitution requires. Now, we could easily write whole books laying out the details, but there is more than enough information out there. Let me cite a single instance … Continue reading →

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Fear Fatigue

Posted on November 1, 2009 by ehurst

Sometimes I wonder if there isn’t some conspiracy to create false fears. We had the scare about gun confiscations once Obama was elected. Now that might happen, but it won’t be right away. People are still sucking up huge quantities … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Karmic Koala on Inspiron 545 MT

Posted on October 31, 2009 by ehurst

This is the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. There is little point to running down the entire catalogue. Almost everything works Out of the Box® as we have come to expect from Ubuntu. When it doesn’t is when we have something … Continue reading →

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Biggest Dope Dealer in the World: CIA

Posted on October 30, 2009 by ehurst

It’s easy to confuse things talking about the US Government, as if it were one single thing. It’s not. The federal bureaucracy is multiple governments under a single umbrella, and occasionally competing. I have long said one of the greatest … Continue reading →

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The Interstellar Anthropologist, Part 2: Research

Posted on October 29, 2009 by ehurst

He stared into the darkened ceiling. The concept of “bureaucratic efficiency” had been an oxymoron since the creation of bureaucrats. His request for a separate space to simply sit and think quietly was almost unheard of in that day and … Continue reading →

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